I was reading that the battery receives about 1.5 hours of solar power a day, but they don't know if that's enough to charge it up enough to do the tasks they're hoping for. It'd be great if it was enough, and samples could be studied.

Had Philae been on its way NOW, I'm sure that more up-to-date scientific and technological instruments'd be on board to cope with any problems they're finding now, but since the trip's been worthwhile, you can bet they'll soon launch something else.

LOOOL!! I could never fathom those maths problems, and I've still no desire to, but you're right about all the calculations, especially as we're talking about an object which's 500 billion km from earth, and Rosetta had to travel further than that to reach the perfect position for Philae to land.

Yes - love it. They're still working on data that's coming in. It was a pity that no actual soil samples could be taken, but finding what appears to be organic molecules's fabulous. The little lander did a great job - and heavily over-shadowed tweets about Kim Kardasian! LOL - and so it should.

Just because it has carbon on it, doesn't really mean diddly squat, unless they know where the carbon came from. Perhaps it passed too close to a sun and elements were reduced to carbon? Perhaps it struck the earth or another planet during it's travels and picked it up there.

Maybe ET left his battery pack behind?

Just kills me how the brainwashed masses always look in the wrong direction for nearly everything!

The little comet may show no more signs of how life started than our shadows do, but the scientists're hoping that during the coming weeks and months, Philae might "reawaken" if the batteries manage to store more power. If so, probes'll be able to dig down below the dust and ice and pass on further information.

It's probably clutching at straws at this early stage. Man has an inherent urge to try and solve the mystery of life. I don't think we ever will, either because "we're not meant to" or the guesswork'll be way off the actual radar, even with scientific research to back it up, so to speak.

I still think that it was an amazing achievement, and just the start of further exploration.